DUNMORE'S WAR
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

Information
given to Dr. Draper by Michael Cresap, Jr., in the autumn of
1845.

From
American Archives, Series 4, Volume 1, p. 15

Jos.
Tomlinson said, that one of the Squaws was in the habit of crossing
to Bakers to get milk, & Mrs. Baker was kind in giving her some
for her 2 children. this squaw was Logan's sister, & the father
of her children was John Gibson. One day she said that the Indians
were angry & wd be over next day by a certain hour, &
advised Mrs. Baker to move to Cat Fish's camp: the next day several
Indians came at the appointed time with their faces painted black;
the men at the time were not in [the] house; the Indians went into
Bakers, & without permission took liquor & drank, &
also took what rifles there were there, & one put on Nathaniel
Tomlinson's military coat. After a little, Daniel Greathouse, Danl.
(?) Sappinton, & Nathl. Tomlinson, George Cox, & one other
came in. Tomlinson wanted his regimental coat, which the Indian did
not feel disposed to yield to its owner; & Tomlinson declared
he would kill him, if he did not, & the probability is the
Indians were indulged with more liquor. Cox was opposed to this
summary course, said it would breed an Indian war, & that he
would have no hand in it; & had not gone far in the woods [when
he] heard firing at the house. Greathouse, Tomlinson &
Sappington were all that were concerned in the affair. Baker had no
hand in it, nor was he probably present.